Bausman’s essay earns award

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Apr 11, 2013 at 12:45 PM

Receives Graduate Student Award

At this year’s International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Cassandra Bausman was named recipient of the Graduate Student Award for her essay “Convention Un-done: UnLunDun’s Unchosen Heroine and Narrative (Re)Vision.”After considering submissions covering a wide range of subjects and methodologies, this year’s selection committee came to a consensus abut the winning submission stating Bausman’s discussion was clearly grounded in scholarly tradition and astutely aware of historical and theoretical contexts.The ICFA is an International Scholarly Literary Conference held annually in Orlando, Fla. Each year the association presents an award and stipend to the graduate student presenting the most outstanding paper at the association’s conference.The award is presented to the winner at the award’s banquet and the essay is published in the association’s Literary Journal.Bausman is a 2002 graduate of Kewanee High School and a 2006 graduate of Augustana College, Rock Island. She currently is an English Ph.D candidate at the University of Iowa where she teaches and works as an administrative assistant in the university’s Writing Center.

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